Photographer Ryan Wilkes captured a hummingbird from a perspective that’s typically unseen. This slow-motion close-up of a hummingbird’s tongue displays its uniqueness and versatility. In the same way ...

Bill shape affects how efficiently a hummingbird feeds and how it competes with other hummingbirds. Because of humans, they ...

They’re back! I am talking about the orneriest bird of its size; one that is very protective of its feeder; one that chases other birds from its feeder; and one that chases all birds from similar ...

The long, thin bills of hummingbirds are one of their most distinct features. Their bills aren't just for looking pretty-they ...

Hummingbird bills -- their long, thin beaks -- look a little like drinking straws. But new research shows just how little water, or nectar, that comparison holds. Scientists have discovered that the ...

Alejandro Rico-Guevara remembers when he first realized he was a hummingbird guy — not like an "I fill my hummingbird feeder every week" guy but an “I want to know everything about these birds” guy.

A Rufous hummingbird. Credit: Wendy Miller/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Rufous hummingbird has a reputation as one of the continent’s most tenacious birds of its size. Weighing less than a nickel and ...

It's almost like they live in another dimension, or maybe even another world, a world where everything happens really, really fast. Hummingbirds fly fast, and are more aerobatic than any other bird ...